Mozzarella Sticks in San Jose

8 restaurants in San Jose list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Fast Pizza Delivery Blossom Hill at $6.49. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $12.05 at Five Star Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.56 apart, which is 86% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.90 at the median, so San Jose is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 266 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Pleasanton, about 25 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in San Jose? Fast Pizza Delivery Blossom Hill, at $6.49 on 461 Blossom Hill Rd. The same dish reaches $12.05 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.56.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in San Jose that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Pleasanton, about 25 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $2.50 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.